August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag

August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag (born April 10, 1795 in Stralsund , † November 12, 1857 in Karnin ) was a German officer, civil servant and landowner.

Life

August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag was born as the son of Heinrich Christian Friedrich von Pachelbel-Gehag , first district president in the Prussian administrative district of Stralsund , and his wife Marie Charlotte, nee. von Sodenstern, born. His brother was Wilhelm Carl Friedrich von Pachelbel-Gehag (born March 1, 1793, † December 10, 1837); since 1800 sergeant in the Engelbrechten infantry regiment in Stralsund; later major .

Up to the age of 11 he and his brother received their schooling in their parents' house with the tutor Karl Lappe , later pastor and poet in Pütte , and in March 1806 began as a cadet at the military academy in Berlin , which his brother had just finished; there he was promoted to room sergeant. In 1808 he finished the local training with the testimony to Portepee Ensign and then attended for six months the school Stralsund and until 1810, the University of Greifswald to war and cameralistics to study, in this case outweighed the study of cameralistics because he already at this time intended to prepare for forest management .

In the fall of 1810 he was made a flag junior and as such joined the infantry regiment of Colonel Hermann von Engelbrechten in Stralsund. On February 26, 1811 he was promoted to staff ensign and in the same year he was given the position of adjutant .

In January 1812, Swedish Pomerania was occupied by the French army under the command of Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout ; in March the royal Swedish troops standing there were disarmed and declared prisoners of war, which also affected the Engelbrechten regiment. August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag, together with the other officers of the regiment, was first brought to Stettin in July 1812 and to France to the fortress in Blois in August of the same year . Because the commandant granted the prisoners of war a great deal of freedom, he and his brother were able to move into quarters with the Blandeau couple, with whom he remained in correspondence well into old age. The peace of 1814 gave him freedom again and returned to Stralsund after almost two years.

After his return he first attended the forest academy in Drei 30acker , which was under the directorate of Johann Matthäus Bechstein and six months later he went to the Grand Ducal Saxon Forestry School in Eisenach in Ruhla ; there, thank God King, was the director of the institution. On May 8, 1815 August Heinrich von Pachelebel-Gehag was from the Swedish King Karl XIII. appointed forester and received the assurance to be able to take over the position of Stralsund chief forester Stühmer later.

On July 5, 1815, he was dismissed from the Swedish army as a lieutenant at his own request and sworn in as chief forester on September 15, 1815; In order to deepen his education, however, he stayed in Ruhla until March 1816.

After his return to Stralsund, New Western Pomerania had meanwhile been handed over by Sweden to Prussia, most of the existing civil servants remained in their posts and so he came as a substitute to the chief forester Stühmer and thus into the Prussian civil service. At the same time he became a lieutenant in the newly formed Landwehr battalion in Western Pomerania . The forests in New West Pomerania were divided into two inspections, each of which was headed by a chief forester. During the Swedish reign, the top management of the entire forest administration was in the hands of the chief hunter, to whom the two chief foresters were directly subordinate. After the takeover by the Prussian government, this organization was retained for the time being. The Rügen area , which August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag has now been assigned, also belonged to the inspection area of ​​the chief forester Stühmer . In 1816, Oberforster Stühmer was released from his business and the management of the inspection was transferred entirely to August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag.

On October 22nd, 1817, while retaining his position as chief forester, he was appointed forest assessor with the government in Stralsund , and in the following year, when his uncle, chief hunter Friedrich Wilhelm von Sodenstern, resigned from the civil service, he took over the management of his post for forestry transfer. One of his first tasks was to draw up a plan for the organization of the forest management, as was already common in the older provinces. After the personal presentation of the plan in the Ministry of Finance, it was then approved, so that now six chief foresters have been set up in New Western Pomerania; he himself took over the business of the forest council and the chief forest officer in the government college in Stralsund.

On hunting trips together with the then Crown Prince and later King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , He won his favor and support.

The royal ministry for spiritual teaching and medical matters at the University of Greifswald felt compelled to subject the administration of the university's estates and forests to a thorough examination and to transfer this work to August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag. After completing his work, this led to the fact that, with the approval of the royal finance ministry, initially under the supervision of the then head forester Karl Friedrich Christian von Thadden in Stettin, he was also appointed head of the academic forest administration for an annual fee .

On August 28, 1819, he was appointed Premier Lieutenant and Company Leader in the Landwehr.

In 1821 he was invited to the deliberations held in November in Stettin under the chairmanship of the then President Johann August Sack on the draft of a new forest code; appointed forest inspector on December 27 of the same year, appointed royal Prussian forest master on April 11, 1822 and government and forestry council on June 18, 1826 with the anciency of October 8, 1825.

In 1825 he was appointed captain in the 2nd Landwehr Infantry Regiment.

On June 26, 1827, he was appointed chief forest official in the government in Arnsberg , Westphalia, by the highest cabinet order . Together with his family, he moved into his apartment in the Obereimer house in Arnsberg, where the forestry office was also located. On January 21, 1833, he received the character of chief forestry officer. In 1837 his sphere of activity was expanded by a decree from Johann Philipp von Ladenberg because the position of chief forest officer in the royal government in Münster was not filled and he had to take it over as well.

Due to the large number of his tasks, he asked for his departure from service with the Landwehr, this was granted to him on March 10, 1837 and he was dismissed as a major .

In 1839, a second head forester position was temporarily set up with the government in Potsdam to relieve the then head forester who was assigned to August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag on June 11, 1839; on August 6th he was introduced to his office in the government council by the then President Friedrich Magnus von Bassewitz . On October 21, 1839 he was also appointed a member of the royal court hunting office.

In the administrative district of Potsdam there were five inspections with 37 chief forester's offices , plus a sixth inspection with three areas, which was later placed under the royal court chamber for the administration of the royal family estates. August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag was assigned the inspections of Berlin, Neustadt and Zehdenick and when his older comrade was transferred to the government in Merseburg in 1841 , he was given the entire forest management of the entire administrative district.

In 1840 King Friedrich Wilhelm IV planned to bring the forests around Potsdam into harmony, to transform part of the royal forest between Potsdam and Werder, the so-called Pirschheide, into a wildlife park, and to create a pheasantry between Charlottenhof and the New Palace . For this purpose, August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag was commissioned to work out appropriate plans, which were later approved by the king. After only two years, the work on the wildlife park was largely completed and there were 200 to 300 deer there.

He also devoted himself to the tasks of the court hunting office and the Parforce hunting club, to which Prince Carl of Prussia paid special attention. The court hunts that were carried out always took place to the satisfaction of the king and the participants, so that he organized these hunts independently in the forests he managed. On May 1, 1844, he was appointed court hunter master and on March 3, 1845, the king had the minister of the royal house, Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , express his satisfaction with the treatment of the hunting grounds and the management of the hunts.

In 1847 his uncle, the court marshal and senior hunter master, died. D. Friedrich Wilhelm von Sodenstern, and he inherited the Karniner property, for which his father had already received a mortgage claim from the Crown of Sweden in 1799.

On February 9, 1849, for health reasons, he asked for his retirement; this request was rejected on February 20, 1849 by the then Finance Minister, Rudolf Rabe . With the cabinet order of May 5, 1849, following the departure of the chief hunter Heinrich zu Carolath-Beuthen , he was given the management of the court hunting office. On February 28, 1850, he again asked to leave, this request and the others in the following years were also rejected. On January 1, 1852, he was appointed Vice-Chief Hunting Officer by the king and it was not until March 12, 1853 that he was granted the requested retirement from the chief forester's office, although he remained in his position at the court hunting department and thus also in the administration of the wildlife park.

In 1854 he was only able to do the business of the court hunting office from his room and in the summer of 1855 he visited Bad Rehme , already paralyzed on both feet , but without any healing properties, so that he felt compelled to abandon all business to withdraw. On November 30, 1855, at his request, he was finally released from his position as Vice-Chief Hunting Officer and Head of the Court Hunting Office, and he was given the character of a real secret council with the predicate excellence .

family

On November 23, 1821 he married Charlotte Agnese Helene (* May 16, 1804; † November 3, 1869), daughter of Chamberlain Baron Philipp Carl Ludwig Schoultz von Ascheraden (1756-1826), Lord of Schmantewitz and Nehringen and sister of August Ludwig Schoultz von Ascheraden , Prussian head of mission in the Kingdom of Denmark . Together they had three sons and three daughters, one of whom, however, died in childhood. His remaining children were:

• Friedrich von Pachelbel-Gehag, Rittmeister a. D .;
• Carl von Pachelbel-Gehag, captain in the 1st Guard Regiment on foot ;
• Hugo von Pachelbel-Gehag, Imperial Austrian Cadet in the 15th Jäger Battalion;
• Olga von Pachelbel-Gehag, married to Hans von Funcke at Löbnitz Castle;
• Laura von Pachelbel-Gehag, married to Danko von Funcke .

Honors

On January 18, 1836, he received the Royal Prussian Order of St. John and thus became a Knight of Honor of this order.

On January 18, 1841, he received the Red Eagle Order, 4th class, and on January 18, 1843, the 3rd class with the ribbon, and in 1850 he was awarded the Red Eagle Order, 2nd class, and on December 30, 1853, he was awarded the Red Star Order of the eagle 2nd class with oak leaves.

In his honor, the king had two bronze deers set up in the palace gardens of Karnin as a permanent souvenir. The two bronze deer at the entrance to the palace gardens were last seen by witnesses in the Soviet headquarters in Neubrandenburg .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin Review . R. Heinicke, 1857, p. 494–495 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ↑ General forest and hunting newspaper . JD Sauerländer., 1858, p. 406-417 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ^ R. Kobilke: Karnin. History of a West Pomeranian village. Ed .: Municipality of Karnin, self-published. printed by GeKa-Druck Stralsund, 1993 (170 pages).